Obama made the UN obsolete: “The clear point is, you poor nations can spout off all you want on questions like human rights or the role of women or fighting polio or handling refugees. But when you get too close to the center of things that count—the fossil fuel that’s at the center of our economy—you can forget about it.”

The parties to the deal are now “a league of super-polluters”: “It is no accident that the targets are weak to nonexistent,” McKibben writes for Grist, for this “coalition of foxes.”

His resolve will play well in the US—and that’s a bad thing. “Having spurned Europe and the poor countries of the world … Obama has taken the mandate that progressives worked their hearts out to give him, and used it to gut the ideas that progressives have held most dear.”

You wanna run that one by me again? Bush wanted to invade Iraq. UN said "We do no want you to invade Iraq." Bush did it anyway. UN said "Oh phooey." So the preemptive warfare doctrine made the UN obsolete, with (as you say) help from the UN body itself. And...I guess I'm an idiot too? Mmkay.

FreeThemAll

Dec 20, 2009 6:54 AM CST

It seems our President is catching flak from the left and right of the political spectrum.. He must be doing something right If our economy recovers before before the 2010 mid terms, the GOP is in trouble, if not the Democrats are.

JoeQ

Dec 20, 2009 4:41 AM CST

LOL, DLY. You at least put a little more creativity and individual thought into your posts. Not like BobR/Do-Do. Thanks for the occasional surprise post. And you actually read a little bit else you wouldn't have seen what I posted. Of course, your handle "DontLikeYou" nicely expresses your manifesto: spread hatred wherever you go. Congratulations on your discovery. If you look for hate everywhere you will always find it.